Improvement in platform-scales



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Letters Patent No. 94,517, dated September 7, 1869.

IMPROVMENT IN PLATFORM-SCALES.

The Schedule referred to in theae Letters Patent and making par@ Of the B31116- To all whom. it may conce/m Be it known that I, LYMAN M. SEVERANGE, of Dixon, in the county of Lee, and State 4of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Platform- Scales; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, refer-V ence being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and figures marked thereon, which forma part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of Amy invention.

.The nature of my invention consists' in the special connections and bearings, hereafter fully described, connecting the horizontal levers beneaththe platform of the scales with the rod attached to the scale-beam, whereby each lever acts entirely independent of the other levers upon the rod.

To enable those skilled inthe art to understand how to manufacture and use my invention,-I will proceed to describe the same with particularty.

The same letters of reference refer to the corresponding parts in the different figures.

A A and B B represent the four horizontal levers usually arranged beneath a certain well-known class or kind of -platibrm-scales.

For. a full description of the construction and arrangement of said levers, and the frame and platform of the scales I use, I refer to the Letters Patent issued tome for an improvement in platform-soales, on the 6th day of August, A. D.l 1867. I, however,prefer to arrange the levels A A in the same plane, or one vers A above the bea-ring of the other by attaching the splice or nose-piece D ot' one higher than the other.

These levers have bearings upon the connectingpieces C, which consist of a point resting in a socket,

as clearly indicated in the drawings by the dotted ines. These connecting-pieces are connected with the rod E by having bearings at F, which also consists of apoint resting in a socket, as clearly indicated in the drawings by the dotted lines. These bearings, connecting the pieces C with the rod E, are upon arms or projections rgidly attached to the ro'd.

This kind'of connection between the levers and ,the rod E enables me to have the ends of the levers directly under each other, and, at the same time, connect them with the rod, so that each one will act thereon entirely independent of all the other levers. It also causes the scales to Weigh correctly even when the platform is not level.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my invention,

What 'I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 'Ihe combination of the connecting-pieces C, levers A and B, and rod E, when constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes described and set forth.

LYMAN M. SEVERANGE.

J. W. HoLLnNBEoK, A. L. PORTER. 

